LA Confidential

[Swan Red]

and still think it's an excellent film.

 

I know a lot of people dislike it, and I kinda understand the idea that a number of hollywood heavyweights in a film that's supposed to be an intelligent thriller can seem very backslapping but it remains a very very good watch

 

Spacey is excellent, Crowe can actually act but Guy Pierce belies his Aussie Soap roots to prove that their is definately credible acting jobs for those that come from such inauspicious beginnings

[Senrab_nhoj]

great film

[The Hitman]

I agree with Senrab,it's a great film which I've seen numerous times.

Certain parts still manage to shock me,even though I know they're coming.

 

Russell Crowe is a hugely underrated actor,in my opinion,there's not been a film of his that I've seen where he's been poor.He's played a wide variety of roles too.Vastly superior actor to many other Hollywood "stars".

[muleskinner]

Kim Basingers best performance I think. She has got better as she gets older.

[Earl Hafler]

Kim Basinger's best performance is the strip to ' Leave Your Hat On ' in 9 1/2 weeks

[Nerik]

Rolo Tommasi.........

[Mike]

great film, but then it is a james elroy - you can't (or rather you shouldn't) go wrong.

[Stevie H]

danny devito's superb in it too. sleazy as you like.

[McBain]

One of my favourite films of recent times. How it lost all the Oscars to titanic god only knows

 

The Rolo Tomassi scene with James Cromwell and Kevin Spacey is my favourite

[The Hitman]

One of my favourite films of recent times. How it lost all the Oscars to titanic god only knows

 

The Rolo Tomassi scene with James Cromwell and Kevin Spacey is my favourite

1129467[/snapback]

That's the part I was referring to,but tried not to give the game away for those who haven't seen it.

Superb scene.

[Swan Red]

They manage to make a b******s of Cromwell's accent though

[£440,000]

Have any of you lot seen 'True Confessions'? It's another good film on similar subject.

 

The novel is even better than. A great LA noir.

[Guest El Boss]

Great novel

 

Great film

 

Easily the best film of 1997

[Knox_Harrington]

and still think it's an excellent film.

 

I know a lot of people dislike it, and I kinda understand the idea that a number of hollywood heavyweights in a film that's supposed to be an intelligent thriller can seem very backslapping but it remains a very very good watch

 

Spacey is excellent, Crowe can actually act but Guy Pierce belies his Aussie Soap roots to prove that their is definately credible acting jobs for those that come from such inauspicious beginnings

1129401[/snapback]

I don't know anyone who slags it and the fact is that at the time Spacey may not have been and Cromwell, Pierce and Crowe certainly weren't, Hollywood heavyweights.

 

The best mainstream American film of the last ten years. The Rollo Tomassi sequence is the best Maguffin I can think of.

 

EDIT: McGuffin? Maguffin? MacGuffin? Any takers?

Edited December 29, 2005 by Knox_Harrington

[fyds]

and still think it's an excellent film.

 

I know a lot of people dislike it, and I kinda understand the idea that a number of hollywood heavyweights in a film that's supposed to be an intelligent thriller can seem very backslapping but it remains a very very good watch

 

Spacey is excellent, Crowe can actually act but Guy Pierce belies his Aussie Soap roots to prove that their is definately credible acting jobs for those that come from such inauspicious beginnings

1129401[/snapback]

Is absolutely right. James Cromwell should not be overlooked either. At the time it was made though Vic, only Danny De Vito was a real Hollywood heavyweight - Spacey was on the rise, Basinger on the decline but no-one much knew who Cromwell, Crowe and Pierce were - this was the film that essentially made them. True Noir in the best possible sense.

Posts merged:

I don't know anyone who slags it and the fact is that at the time Spacey may not have been and Cromwell, Pierce and Crowe certainly weren't, Hollywood heavyweights.

 

The best mainstream American film of the last ten years. The Rollo Tomassi sequence is the best Maguffin I can think of.

 

EDIT: McGuffin? Maguffin? MacGuffin? Any takers?

1130176[/snapback]

MacGuffin, mate...

[StevieC]

They manage to make a b******s of Cromwell's accent though

1129474[/snapback]

 

 

do ye have a valediction boyo?

[Swan Red]

Dai Murphy